Bulbophyllum didymotropis Seidenf. 1979 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994
Plant and Flower in situ Thailand
Photos by © Tripetch P.
TYPE Drawing by © Seidenfaden
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Common Name The Two-Keeled? Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Yunnan province of China and Thailand at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, mat forming, cool growing epiphyte with close set, flat, discoid pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, from near the center, sessile, almost heart shaped leaf that blooms in the later summer on a 1.2" long, including the pedicel and ovary, single flowered inflorescence
"Morphologically Bulbophyllum konstantinovii Aver. 2013 may be closest to Bulbophyllum simplicilabellum Seidenf. andB. didymotropis Seidenf. described from Thailand, but distinctly differs in 3 nerved sepals, broadly ovate, oblique, acute petals, broad cup-like, cordate broadening of column foot apex and inflated fleshy margin of the lip." Averyanov 2014
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 AS B sp. Garrett 870 #45 Fig a-b pg 385 drawing fide; *Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; ; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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